England faces Croatia in the World Cup semifinals on Tuesday, but even with that hurdle ahead of them and an impressive French team waiting in the final, England supporters are counting their chickens.

More than 200,000 of them have signed an online petition seeking an official holiday in the event the team wins it all. Parliament will debate the petition, if necessary, following the semifinal match.

Woken up and it’s fully hit me that there are 3 teams left in the World Cup and one of them is England. UNREAL. May never get this experience again a lifetime, so here’s your hourly reminder that IT’S COMING HOME 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is all for the holiday. With calamitous Brexit planning causing Britain's economy-watchers to hold their breaths and mass protests in the works for U.S. President Donald Trump's impending visit, Corbyn declared that Priority No. 1 for Theresa May's Conservative government should be the declaration of a Monday holiday if England wins.

Because hangovers, in this case, will mean something more than proof of overindulgence.

There's a long way to go, but if England win the #WorldCup the Government should declare a public holiday as a day of national celebration.https://t.co/Q5Wfoh8jpO

"The World Cup is a very special international competition," Corbyn's office said last week. "It's something that brings people together on a very large scale and we need recognition of that and recognition of the importance of football in the country."

Corbyn actually wasn't the first politician to suggest the new holiday.

At the beginning of the tournament, when England was still considered a longshot to win, Labour MP Emily Thornberry called for an official holiday if England scored its second World Cup title, its lone victory coming way back in 1966.

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She admitted, however, that it was just a ploy for support, saying:

"I can't pretend that I have the greatest interest in football," the opposition politician said, "and I suspect that there's quite a lot of people like that."

No word from the prime minister about a potential Monday holiday, with reports circulating that May prefers cricket to soccer. The British government is officially boycotting the World Cup, which is taking place in Russia, to protest Russia's alleged role in the March poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal in England.